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Sunday, 22 April 2012

Dead fish

It's not that you don't want
to be free. It's not that you like to comply, like to follow conventions, like
to walk the path already set for you. It's not that you don't wish to get out
of the trap, leave the crowd, go your own way, reject the shoulds and the
musts, do what you like with conviction and enthusiasm in spite of others'
opinions.

But you follow the crowd anyway, you do the same things anyway,
you achieve certain things at certain age anyway, because, whilst deadly bored
with the tedious security conformity gives you, you're too scared to walk out
there and be who you are and do what you like, since you don't know what you
really desire and more importantly, don't have the confidence, courage and self-belief
to say no to things that guarantee security with some boredom and ordinariness
and say yes to things that are either successful, remarkable and memorable or
purely disastrous.

Note

I today am not accountable for every single post on this blog. Besides all the posts written and published in anger or excitement, it has happened quite often that I discussed a topic and supported a view only to change my mind a few weeks or months (or years) later, especially in literature (view on Jane Austen, Nabokov, The French Lieutenant's Woman, etc). Therefore, people coming across this blog should be reminded that the opinions I held at some point in my life are not necessarily my opinions now. Thank you.